
          Early Hort. Lit.

- 15-

Appendix C
STATISTICS

In four samplings we obtained an average of 75% of titles located, and 
satisfactory
imprints for slightly over 65% of all titles; defective titles over 34%. This
count has, however, been so cursory that it has doubtless overlooked some imprints obtained 
from Pritzel, Kayser, Seguier, or even less reliable bibliographies, for works
located in the Arnold Arboretum, British Museum, and other libraries that do not usualy
give imprints in their printed catalogs. And since many works with unsatisfactory
entries are located in more than one library, it is likely that examination of
different
copies will reveal additional imprints for variants not hitherto suspected. On the
other hand, some of those counted as defective because unverified, may be found absolutely 
correct on checking with the books themselves.

[start table with 6 columns and 4 rows]

[start row 1]
[column heading 1] Pages
[row 1] 1-35 (35)

[column heading 2] Authors
[row 1] (a to Ayral)

[column heading 3] Entries
[row 1] 251

[column heading 4] Located
[row 1] 175 (70%)

[column heading 5] Imprints OK
[row 1] 158 (63%)

[column heading 6] Imprints defective
[row 1] 93 (37%)
[end row 1]

[start row 2]
[column heading 1] Pages 430-542 (113)
[row 2]

[column heading 2] Authors
[row 2] (Lawson- Mizauld)

[column heading 3] Entries
[row 2] 599

[column heading 4] Located
[row 2] 473 (77%)

[column heading 5] Imprints OK
[row 2] 432 (72%)

[column heading 6] Imprints defective
[row 2] 164 (27%)
[end row 2]

[start row 3]
[column heading 1] Pages
[row 3] 571-652 (82)

[column heading 2] Authors
[row 3] (Occhicolini-Rohr)

[column heading 3] Entries
[row 3] 302

[column heading 4] Located
[row 3] 223 (74%)

[column heading 5] Imprints OK
[row 3] 174 (58%)

[column heading 6] Imprints defective
[row 3] 128 (42%)
[end row 3]

[start row 4]
[column heading 1] Pages
[row 4] 750-800 (51)

[column heading 2] Authors
[row 4] (T-Tylkowski)

[column heading 3] Entries
[row 4] 184

[column heading 4] Located
[row 4] 146 (79%)

[column heading 5] Imprints OK
[row 4] 126 (68%)

[column heading 6] Imprints defective
[row 4] 68 (31.5%)
[end row 4]

[end table]

Another sampling, with reference to library location of titles lacking imprints,
or otherwise defective, gives the following. The Bibliothèque  Nationale is not represented, 
because the sample covers the end of the alphabet, in which many titles will
doubtless be located in the still unpublished volumes of its author catalog. Another
sampling gave about 10% of titles not confirmed by entries in American libraries definitely 
credited to the Bibliothèque  Nationale, and it is possible that that library
may have at least 25% of all the works covered by the list.

Pages (Total): 571-912 (342)
Entries: 1710
Imprints: 1214 OK
Defective: 496 (29%) Of these 496 the following are located as follows

British Museum 120 items 24%

Arnold Arboretum 30 items 6%

Kjøbenhavn Bibl. 45 items 9%
        